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Karl Rove: More Ashley Judd attacks coming

Get your popcorn ready. Karl Rove said Thursday he’s planning much more than a sequel to the attack ad his super PAC premiered earlier this week against actress Ashley Judd, a Democrat, considering a run against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

“She’s going to get to know that she’s not going to be able to wait until the screenwriters from California and producers make her look good and prepare the ads and give her lots of lines to memorize so that she can handle these things,” Rove told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. “We’re going to make her start saying where she’s coming from.”

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Crossroads ad mocks ‘radical’ Ashley Judd

Rove’s conservative American Crossroads super PAC debuted the ad dubbed “Ashley’s Story” earlier this week that depicts Judd as an out-of-touch, inexperienced Hollywood liberal who is not even a resident of Kentucky. Judd, daughter of country singer Naomi Judd, currently resides in Tennessee.

“We are making fun of her,” Rove said point-blankly on Fox News. “She is way far out on the left wing of the Democratic Party, which is not very far out left in Kentucky.”

Judd — an actress turned activist who is also an advocate for humanitarian and women’s issues — has been mulling over a run against McConnell, the current Senate minority leader, for quite some time. She appeared in Washington last month during inaugural weekend but has given no timeline for when she will make a decision about that race.

Kentucky Democratic Party chairman Daniel Logsdon told POLITICO that Rove’s criticisms of her this week signal that he views her as a threat.

“I don’t know what he means ‘more is coming,’” Logsdon said. “Unless he gets a kitchen sink, I don’t think there’s anything left to throw at her.”

Logsdon continued: “It speaks to the fact that Sen. McConnell’s numbers show that he’s very vulnerable which is something we believe strongly. They obviously see her as a threat.”

Rove says that’s because she wants a short campaign — comparing her with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), a former comedian before he entered into politics.

“We don’t want to have happen in Kentucky what happened in Minnesota where Al Franken knew, ‘I need to have a short campaign. I don’t want people to pay a lot of attention to me, I don’t want people to know a lot about me except I’m a celebrity and a nice guy.’”